the object level issue aside, this is a great example of mainstream social norms rely heavily on the disgust reflex as an intuitive arbiter of morality, and people who suppress theirs are treated as fundamentally suspicious; good reasons for this, but it can lead to bad places
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RT @clairlemon
This is what I mean about Twitter's rising dumbness. Aside from the fact that Richard's sarcasm is missed, people are mad at me for pointing ou…
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1435379146331279361
the upside to this approach is that "deviants", ie those that differ from various norms in some way, do in fact tend to be more likely to be dangerous in some way; tribalism and conservatism are powerful tools for avoiding danger, and we feel them strongly bc they kept us alive
the spectrum of openness to experience and modes of thought exhibits horseshoe dynamics, in that both extremes tend to fail in comparable ways
those too closed tend to slowly die out as the world changes around them, while those too often tend to quickly spiral out of coherence
as usual, the centrist path tends to be the right one; while each situation has its own optimal tuning, generally one should seek to aim for somewhere in the middle; sticking to the standard solutions for known problems, but being willing to explore new approaches when they fail
this applies to both individuals & collectives, unsurprisingly, as an individual itself is a collective of psychological subcomponents
any agent wishing to remain a live player should continuously balance the competing impulses of openness & distrust
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RT @pee_zombie
the function of your primary ideological frame should be to ensure psychic ergodicity, avoiding memetic calcification and maintaining metacognitive optionality; this is…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1398735589525098505
the downside is, ofc, that too much of this limits one's ability to respond to new situations; cognitive flexibility is critical when encountering heretofore unknown challenges, ones which the traditional and trusted ways are not equipped to handle.